Tag: T-Shirts

Free Women’s T-Shirt!

Today, I spent a couple of hours working on a T-shirt for female avatars, this time with proper sleeves and a proper collar. I fiddled a lot with it, adjusting it here and there, and I think it turned out pretty well! My first try was a little too tight, so I made it 105% larger and that seemed to do the trick.

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There’s only one small problem that I can find with it. When I wore my VR headset and looked at myself in third-person mode, then raised my avatar’s arms, I noticed that her skin poked through the cloth at the armpits and a little bit at the top of the shoulders. I need to figure out how to fix that problem, but in the meantime, I’m going to make a plain white (untextured) version of this women’s T-shirt available for FREE in the Sansar Store (here’s the link). You will need to press the Simulate Cloth button, and tug at the bustline and around the hemline of this T-shirt, to get it to fit your avatar properly!

Please accept this T-shirt as my Happy New Year present to you. I’ll keep tweaking it until I get a design that I’m 100% satisfied with and I’m willing to sell for actual Sansar dollars! I find creating clothing using Marvelous Designer for Sansar to be incredibly satisfying!

My First (and Second) Real Sale!

Well, the free items in my store, RSVF, are selling quite well, but of course, I’m not making any profit on those!

But yesterday I had my very first paying customer! Thank you, Radioactive Rosca, for buying my men’s T-shirt with the parrot design!

I made S$5 on the sale, which works out to about a U.S./Canadian nickel, but hey, I’ll take it!

My virtual fashion empire is officially launched! Woot!! And as a thank you to Radioactive Rosca, I made a bright yellow T-shirt with the international radioactive hazard symbol, as he had asked me to do! It’s also available for sale for only S$5 on the Sansar Store:

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…and Rosca immediately bought it, and wore it to 114 Harvest! Here is a photo of Rosca with Drax!

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And that’s my SECOND real sale! I’m on a roll!!

Scene of the Day: Learn to Create Materials

Well, now that I’ve got the whole T-shirt making procedure down pat, it’s time to start cranking the printing presses…

Nobody Knows I'm SWANZ

…hmm, maybe I’ll make dozens and dozens of similar-looking mesh objects, and make each one a different primary colour….and fill up the Sansar Store with them!! *evil laugh* *rubs hands*

(Picture taken at Learn to Create Materials, by Azriel Drumheller.)

(Some background if you didn’t get the joke.)

Adventures in Virtual Fashion Design: Creating a Simple Men’s T-Shirt

Well, today I spent quite a few hours trying to make a “simple” men’s T-shirt, and learning from my mistakes along the way. My first design had the sleeves as part of the T-shirt body itself, and it looked like this:

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But when I wore it in-world, I would get holes where my upper arms poked through, and no amount of adjusting the fabric in Lookbook would fix the problem.

MD problem with T-shirt - in Sansar 29 Dec 2017

I reported the problem to the Fashion channel on the official Sansar Discord server, and one person said:

I think it’s all because of big (very free) underarm region. When you simulate it in Sansar, it gets weights from body AND arms, and that region goes crazy…So basically it glitches because of extra room.
So I gave up on that design and looked around for a T-shirt pattern with separate pieces for the sleeves. I found this very useful tutorial on YouTube, and I followed it:
And I solved my underarm problem! But then I came across another problem. My T-shirt looked fine in the Marvelous Designer preview window:
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But when I wore it in Sansar, I got these ugly silvery seams everywhere!

Again, I appealed for help on the Fashion channel, and I searched for and found something that Agustine had recommended as a way to get rid of seams: Disable the Show Internal Lines feature in the 3-D avatar display.

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 And I finally got it to work! Here’s what my T-shirt looks like now:

And here’s a shot of me in my Ryan’s Garden experience, enjoying the sunshine and showing off my new, “simple”, blue-checked T-shirt! It’s now available for sale for S$5 in the Sansar Store.

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